Protect

The Burgess Shale and the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site are real, natural, and inspiring. Parks Canada serves Canadians to protect and present special places like these and to foster understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of them, now and for the future. We need your help to make this happen. Here are a few ways how:

Respect the rules

Parks Canada is responsible for protecting this fragile and globally important site and for helping visitors connect with it. To accommodate both of these goals, access to the fossil beds is by guided hike only. Violators will be prosecuted.